Pictures from Phoenix and sometimes from the surrounding cities that make up the "Valley of the Sun"

Monday, January 3, 2011

Arizona Falls

Last April I featured two photos from Arizona Falls, a park on the east side of Phoenix that features a small hydroelectric plant.You can see them here and here.Recently, I visited there again to take some photos of the waterfalls and to play with different exposures.Using a slower shutter speed produced this one that I quite like.

Waterfalls at low light will produce the ribbony effect when the shutter speed is slowed to about 1/15th of a second. It is impossible to take a photo at that slow speed in normal light, of course, because the f-stop cannot be high enough to prevent an over-exposure.